SFPD were looking for 12-year-old Dyhemia Young -- a KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy who was last seen around 6 p.m. Saturday in the area of Page and Buchanan streets -- this past weekend, that is until they heard from her late Sunday night. (Yay!) Seems she just didn't want to go home. According to San Francisco police Sgt. Neville Gittens, Young is "OK" and hopes to make "face-to-face contact" with her by day's end.......

Photo by wirednerd from the SFist Flickr pool. Help find Miranda, won't you? The M.I.A. pooch was last seen in May of '08 on the 900 block of South Van Ness. Sob, sniff. We're pulling for you, fluff face. En Español.......

77-year-old Chee Tse, who was in the early stages of dementia and reported missing last week after leaving her Larkin Street home, was found dead Sunday night outside Cache Creek Casino on state Highway 16. According to CBS 5, Tse "most likely took a tour bus around 8 a.m. from near Kearny and Clay streets in San Francisco to Cache Creek Casino in Brooks, Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln or River Rock Casino in Alexander......

An Amber Alert just broke in on the talking picture box. A presumably unfit father who "has a known drug history and is known to frequent the Oakland area" took off with his son today, claiming that he was taking him to McDonald's, but never returned. According to ABC 7, "Harold Bennett left his home with his child Justin Nottingham...Bennett is about 5'9, 245 pounds, has brown eyes and a bald haircut. Justin Nottingham is......

Young whippersnapper, Santa Cruz resident 18-year-old Matthew Rosenberg, called his mom on Monday to tell her he had "tripped, broke his leg and was lost" in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He was half right. What he didn't tell her was that he was also bombed out of his mind on hallucinogenic mushrooms and a wee bit of acid. Oh yeah, and that he didn't break his leg. An expensive rescue effort ensued, and Rosenberg......

12-year-old SF resident Billie McGee never showed up for class on Monday, reports the San Jose Mercury News (via Bay City News), and has been missing ever since. McGee is described as "a 5-foot-5-inch black girl with black hair and brown eyes who weighs 140 pounds" and was wearing "a black and white jacket with a white, collared shirt and black jeans" on Monday. Have you seen her? If so, please call the San......

Patrick Frost, 35, and Christopher Gerwig, 32, of San Francisco are still nowhere to be found since reported missing since reported missing last Saturday night at Alpine Meadows, just north of Lake Tahoe. Described as "expert skiers," Frost and Gerwig were last seen on Saturday morning at an Alpine Meadows bar "listening to advice about different outlying areas to ski." New snow layers blanketing the mountains this weekend, as well as high winds, have......

The search for Mill Valley resident, 25-year-old Veronica Ruiz, was called off today by police. She had been reported missing since Monday night after she reportedly went on a hike in the Mount Tamalpais area. Over 100 police and civilians had been looking for her since Tuesday morning. That is, until the hunt for her was called off today. Described as "despondent" since a recent break-up, according to NBC 11, Ruiz is "of Asian......

Police found missing diabetic East Bay teen ("missing," "diabetic," and from the "East Bay" -- ow, that's rough), who also suffers from depression, in "ok" condition this afternoon. Whew. According to NBC11, "ambulance crews pulled [Rosalind "Rosie" Blanckenburg] off a trail at the park at about 1:25 p.m. near Woodhaven and Sinset." No word yet on how she ended up in the park, but for now she is safe and (hopefully) sound. We're sure......

Harry Ramsay, a former Contra Costa County sheriff who served in the mid 1970s, went missing the other day after leaving his house on foot, and no one has heard back from the 85-year-old man. According to the the Chronicle, he has "mild dementia and vision problem" -- just like us....